September 10, 2018 Matthew Vadum
Left-wingers say no criticism of tennis player Serena Williams should be allowed for her high-profile meltdown Saturday at the 2018 women's U.S. Open final because she is a double-minority – female and black – and should therefore be immune to criticism. National Organization for Women (NOW) President Toni Van Pelt launched into a fact-free rant.
“In what was a blatantly racist and sexist move, tennis umpire Carlos Ramos unfairly penalized Serena Williams in an abhorrent display of male dominance and discrimination. This would not have happened if Serena Williams was a man,” she said. “She would have been cheered and chided for ‘gamesmanship.’ Male tennis stars are reminding us that they have ‘done much worse’ and have not been penalized.”
Washington Post screed writer Sally Jenkins cried sexism, whining that a male tennis official "took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.".............Richard Ings, a professional chair umpire from 1986 to 1993, sided with Ramos...............Perhaps the most famous American temper tantrum thrower on the tennis courts is John McEnroe. McEnroe’s rants were the stuff of legend but when the male Caucasian violated the rules of the game he was swiftly punished.............To Read More...
My Take - Williams ranted this was unfair, she was a mother, she doesn't cheat and then demands an apology for an official doing his job, and threatens him. Well, we now know she does cheat, and we know that because the coach admitted he was cheating....... but Williams wasn't looking.......so his cheating didn't count.
Okay.....but he admitted he not only cheated then........... he cheats all the time. Are we to assume she's never seen him cheating these other times? So it turns out she does cheat, and now we know she also lies. Then he acknowledges that all the coaches and players cheat....all the time! So if that's the reality of professional tennis, and they all know it, and they all know it's against the rules, why are these idiots coming out in her defense? They absolutley know she's guilty, and the umpire was right in every way.
The fact is "her coach was was using both hands to motion to Ms. Williams to move forward and got called on it." "It's also true that despite what many commentators have said following Saturday’s events, they are called on it quite frequently and that most of the time, players just shrug it off and know that going forward, they and their coaches now need to behave, because the next infraction will cost them a point"..........."it is actually irrelevant whether the player saw or heard whatever instructions were given; either way, it is still an infraction. But there's no wiggle room for her breaking her racket and calling the umpire a thief and threatening him. That's flagrant violations of the rules, and the umpire was left with no choice.
It's not about racism, or feminism. The fact remains she's a cheat who got caught, and fools all over the world started virtue signalling in support of a liar and a cheat who throws temper tantrums when she's not allowed to break the rules.
I'm so sick of these overpaid, pampered snots who are being paid obscene amounts of money for playing kids games, and then acting like absolute jerks. And Williams isn't alone.
When Robbie Alomar spit in umpire John Hirshbecks's face it was disgraceful how they tried to diminish the event, and even Alomar's initial apology was an attempt to put the blame on Kirshbeck because his son was dying. Eventually they patched it all up, but why in the world wasn't Alomar suspended from baseball for the rest of the season?
He says Kirshbeck called him a name, which Kirshbeck denied. Why didn't everyone hear him being called that name? I don't remember anyone coming forward to support Alomar's contention.
When he was in Cleveland we witnessed some of the greatest baseball from a second baseman ever, especially since he was teamed up with one of the great short stops of Indians history, Omar Visquel. It wasn't sports when those two matched up - it was art. But in the locker room Alomar was poison. He was a petty jerk shooting off his mouth causing trouble all the time. Here's the Kirshback story.
Who do you believe?
As a side bar, Alomar's real punishment was from his mother, and I would believe his brother Sandy, who was such a class act he was given a standing ovation when he came back to Cleveland playing for another team. His new teammates came out of the dugout in amazement. I've never seen that before, and since I don't watch sports of any kind any longer, I'm unlikely to see it again.
Is it any wonder I stopped watching sports altogether. There are entirely too many Robbie Alomars and not many Sandy Alomars.
There is one upside to this. We're not married to Williams.
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